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Barley water
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ptisan
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ptisan \Ptis"an\, n. [L. ptisana peeled barley, barley water, Gr. ?, from ? to peel, husk; cf. F. ptisane, tisane.] A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink. (Med.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of tisane English)
Usage examples of ptisan.
I am obliged to coddle her, and feed her, and ptisan her, like a sick baby, bless her dear old heart that loves my darling Emmy!
And I do confess that I think their varied ptisans and syrups are as much preferable to the mineral regimen of bug-poison and ratsbane, so long in favor on the other side of the Channel, as their art of preparing food for the table to the rude cookery of those hard-feeding and much-dosing islanders.
The pulp of Turkey Figs is mucilaginous, and has been long esteemed as a pectoral emollient for coughs: also when stewed and, added to ptisans, for catarrhal troubles of the air passages, and of other mucous canals.